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Rh. I went round by the priest’s house to bid him be ready to marry us tomorrow. . Did he say anything?

. He said it was a very nice match, and that he was never better pleased to marry any two in his parish than myself and Delia Cahel.

. Have you got the fortune, Michael?

. Here it is.

[ puts bag on table and goes over and leans against chimney-jamb., who has been all this time examining the clothes, pulling the seams and trying the lining of the pockets, etc., puts the clothes on the dresser.

[getting up and taking the bag in his hand and turning out the money]. Yes, I made the bargain well for you, Michael. Old John Cahel would sooner have kept a share of this a while longer. 'Let me keep the half of it until the first boy is born,' says he. 'You will not,' says I. 'Whether there is or is not a boy, the whole hundred pounds must be in Michael’s hands before he brings your daughter to the house.' The wife spoke to him then, and he gave in at the end.

. You seem well pleased to be handling the money, Peter.

. Indeed, I wish I had had the luck